Northern China often sees choking smog over the winter, which runs from mid-November to mid-March, as homes and power utilities burn more coal for power and heating as well as dust storms.
THESE images certainly paint an apocalyptic picture with dust and smoke mixing together with heavy snow.
They show roads, airport runways in the province of Xinjiang caked in yellow while the air is so badly affected that visibility is cut off after a few hundred yards.
Snowfall has been coloured by dust from a sandstorm and smoke from vehicles, homes, factories and power stations.
Xinjiang and Henan were China’s top two polluted provinces in the first quarter of this year.
Greenpeace East Asia climate and energy campaigner Huang Wei said: “Policies favouring coal and heavy industry are holding back progress.
“China’s energy transition is already underway, but economic policies that favour coal are putting our health on the line.”
New coal-fired power plants were concentrated in the western region, with 75 per cent of licences granted in central or western China last year.
Northern China often sees heavy smog over the winter, which runs from mid-November to mid-March, as homes and power utilities burn more coal for power and heating.
China has taken steps to broaden its campaign against air pollution.
This included extending a monthly air quality ranking to 169 cities from 74 to pressure local authorities to clean up dirty skies.
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